1. EFGS – 10 November 2015 – Vienna UN-GGIM: Europe Work Group A European Core Data François Chirié (France)

2. WG A Current Status

3. Background and purpose Aim of Work Group A – to propose core geospatial data for Europe Definition of ‘Core Data’ – the minimum set of authoritative geospatial data needed to meet requirements common to member states

4. Approach: Core data = minimum framework Core data: reasonable extension – To ensure the feasibility of their implementation – Core data cannot meet directly all user needs of all specific topics – Key issue: Which data themes to select/dismiss? But core data may be used as a skeleton – on which other geospatial data (more specific, richer, more detailed, more thematic) could rely and be built

5. Approach: WGA Phases Phase 1: determine core data scope – 2014 - 2015 – Select the INSPIRE data themes to be included in core data – Investigating user requirements Phase 2: work out core data specifications – 2016 – Select feature types and attributes from INSPIRE models – Define quality criteria to foster data homogeneity and to meet user requirements

6. Approach: User Requirements UN SDG −Assess data needed to support UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) −Identify the SDG targets using GI INSPIRE use cases −Investigated to find and to justify user requirements Experts in sustainable development −Interviewed Eurostat selection - WG A selection very close

7. Links between core data and statistical data

8. Analysis of the links between core data and statistical data 3 March 2015 Luxembourg – Joint UN-GGIM: Europe – ESS meeting on the integration of statistical and geospatial information – Highlighted the necessity for WG A to analyse the requirements of NSIs Draft circulated to WG B in July 2015  Relevant comments  Report from the ESS task force on the integration of statistical and geospatial information

9. Requirements of NSIs for geospatial data Old view of the statistical production process – Geospatial data for production – Geospatial data for dissemination – Separated and included in different processes New vision of the statistical production process – The spatial reference framework Geospatial data needed to geocode data sources for statistics – Geospatial data to support production of spatial statistics Incl. statistics for monitoring SDG

10. The spatial reference framework (data category 1) Administrative data sources Topographic data supporting these data sources All these themes need to be integrated and fit for spatial analysis – Ex.: administrative boundaries integrated with topographic data – Purpose of spatial analysis: select information or derive new information with a focus on their spatial characteristics

11. Data supporting the production of spatial statistics for monitoring SDG Data sources for statistics (data category 2) – that need to be geocoded for spatial statistics – e.g. workplace points Thematic geospatial data (data category 3) – that can be used to directly create spatial statistics – e.g. land cover data

12. NSIs need to combine the 3 data categories To create a complete range of spatial statistics To create indicators for monitoring SDG Example: Investigate the number of inhabitants potentially affected by flooding – Population data and business register – Geospatial data address locations, building locations, dwelling locations to spatialize the population data to the locations of dwellings and workplaces – High quality elevation data to calculate flooding areas

13. Other requirements of NSIs Geospatial datasets with high resolution and harmonised Common, unique and stable identifiers – Unique keys to reference all relevant information to them Authoritative data – Single official reference datasets Addresses, buildings, dwellings – Mandatory to all public stakeholders

14. WG A Next Steps

15. Probable core data scope Hypothesis: about 15 INSPIRE themes – Most themes of INSPIRE annex I e.g. (not yet decided): Transport Networks, Hydrography, Elevation, … Addresses, Administrative Units, Buildings, … Probably will cover most NSIs requirements, but not all

16. Proposed way forward WG A Workshop – Decide which core data themes to retain Where is European harmonisation most urgently needed? – One or two WG B representatives After the Workshop – Core data draft list circulated for comments to UN-GGIM Europe stakeholders (including NSIs)

17. Thank you for your attention and contribution